Food for BeginnersAbstract: This documentary book which uses drawings in a comic-book style examines the question: why are so many food-producing peasants in the Third World the first to go hungry? The facts and myths of food production throughtout history are discussed, and the usual answers to the above question (over-population, climate, inefficient farming) are discribed. Multi-national agribusiness, neo-malthusians, and neo-colonialism are described as reasons for Third World hunger. Food aid programs should be instituted only for real emergencies so that local food production is not discouraged. Food production problems in these countries need to be solved based on local needs, not Western models. (as). |
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Africa Agribusiness AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS Ali's American Bangladesh BLIGHT borrow Brazil bread cash crops COCOA COFFEE colonialism companies consumers consumption corporations costs COUNTRYSIDE dominated countries drought eliminate hunger Europe EUROPEAN exports families famine farmers farming feed FERTILISER food aid food production food supplies food system French GHANA grain Green Revolution half harvest holders of political hungry IMPORTS income increased India INDUSTRIAL industrialised countries inputs INVESTMENT IRRIGATION keep labour land LANDLORD live LOAN Lots MAIZE marketable surplus million MOTHER COUNTRIES nations NUMBER nutritional obligations OLIGOPOLY PEANUTS peasant poor countries POPULATION GROWTH problems processing profit programmes RENT rich countries RURAL sectors seeds sell social society square mile STARKIST sugar SUPERMARKET Susan George taxes TECHNOLOGY TENANTS There's Third World Third World countries TNCs TRACTORS TUNA UNDERDEVELOPED UNRISD UPPER VOLTA USAID vegetables village wheat World Bank yields